I want to wipe away the tears from each worker's eyes: Bindeshwari Dubey

"I am not here (in Punjab) to impress anyone. My immediate task is to have a feel of the situation... I intend to make all-round efforts, not confine myself to politics alone."Arjun Singhin The Telegraph

"Yes, a chief minister is more powerful. Now I am in a position to take steps directly. I want to wipe away the tears from each worker's eyes."Bindeshwari Dubeyin The Illustrated Weekly of India

"Can Rajiv Gandhi - and the young set of midnight's children he is gathering around him - work any magic on India where others have failed before?"Donald Trelfordin The Observer

"It is not a question of an Indian risk (for foreign investments) being worth it, but whether one can risk staying away from India."M. Narasimhan, chairman, Round Table on India at the European Management Forum

"I am not a gentleman. I am a communist."Ashok Mitra,finance minister, West Bengal in The Illustrated Weekly of India

"I do not look upon journalists as great heroes ...nor do Hook upon them as missionaries. In my opinion we cannot go wrong as long as we look upon ourselves as professionals with a social conscience."Prem Bhatiaat a seminar on investigative journalism in Jaipur

"It is because other people are less than normal that they think I am eccentric."Cho Ramaswamyin Savvy

"The overall effect (of films like A Passage to India and jewel in the Crown) is rather like a literary version of mulligatawny soup. It tries to taste Indian but ends up being ultra parochially British, only with too much pepper."Salman Rushdiequoted in Life

"My credentials as a novelist are high brow. I find the French film-maker Goddard as sickening and cliche-ridden as a Bombay film."Manohar Shyam Joshi, writer of Hum Log in Sunday